So many of my crime movies and tv series have a bumbling partner or someone hired to do something who messes it up and the smart guy has to cover it up.
My wife and I were among the beachgoers in Florida in 1998 held at gunpoint by a killer (oddly from Michigan where we lived).
He ended up grabbing another older man as hostage as the poor wife next to him slumped down in fear, and the killer took his car and escaped. Cops were afraid to intervene. Perp got taken later in a home invasion. Get this: At a concert later the next door neighbor to the home invasion couple said “The police misunderstood him. He talked nicely to the two of them and didn’t at all seem like a violent man.” Definite woke woman.
The killer had earlier used the same gun he held on my wife and myself and the people near us when he shot a woman through her bathroom window at home. He had sent his dimwit accomplice inside to rob the older lady who had earlier kindly hired them to do some work. They knew she owned a small business so preposterously assumed she took all the money home and kept it there in cash so must have a fortune to steal.
She had $20 in cash at home with her so they killed her.
The accomplice said “I seen him through the window, aiming at her. He was showing his teeth like he does when he’s laughing as he’s about to shoot somebody. He sees the humor in it. Then he shot her in the head.”
Wow! What an experience! I kind of remember that.
Well I hate to be right but I’m hearing from my SIL that the cops are now going door to door in the daughter’s neighborhood.
Eesh!! That’s a crazy story. What beach in FL?
Wow.